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: Re: LUG: What is your browser homepage?
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: Richard Carter <rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted]>
Date
: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:55:13 -0500
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That's a lot like the kind of page I'm thinking of making, except
those links are too tiny for me :). You should look into the NewTabURL
extension I mentioned so that the menu comes up every time you open a
new tab. Also I'm thinking I'll probably store the HTML file somewhere
in my computer (probably in my dropbox) so that it comes up instantly.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, <jpgoel@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> This is my homepage:
>
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jpgoel/
>
> It is clean and functional. Since I basically visit the same pages, I only
> have to update this once a semester and have quick access to my class
> sites.
>
> There are other sites that I frequent, but if I put them on my homepage
> then I'd waste a lot more time checking them for updates. When I worked at
> IBM, I created another version of this same page - only it had links to
> things like documentation and other work-related stuff instead.
>
> Jay
>
> On Fri, February 26, 2010 1:58 am, Richard Carter wrote:
>> Just thought I'd throw out a quick poll:
>> What is your browser homepage set to? Why?
>>
>> I currently set all my computers to just http://www.google.com/ but
>> I'm starting to look around again. I have found that iGoogle and
>> Netvibes don't really work for me, they're too heavyweight and I end
>> up going to the full versions of any of the gadgets on the page so
>> they don't actually save me time in the end. So I think I just need
>> something simple, and I'm thinking of making a simple HTML page that
>> looks a bit like Google Chrome's new tab feature. I can even use the
>> NewTabURL extension
>> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2221) to set that page
>> to also open when I Ctrl+T. Now it's just a matter of making the
>> page...
>>
>>
>> Ricket
>>
>
>
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